ABSTRACT
Contemporary urban planning has come a long way from its origins in the Olmsted-inspired parks movement, the visionary plans of Ebenezer Howard and the Garden Cities movement, Daniel Burnham’s monumental City Beautiful projects, the prescient regional plans of eccentric Scottish biologist Patrick Geddes, Le Corbusier and his modernist followers, Frank Lloyd Wright’s brilliant Broadacre City vision, and a host of other imagined and implemented plans discussed in Part Five on Urban Planning History and Visions. Nowadays urban and regional planning (or town and country planning as it is called in the UK) has matured into an important profession with its own body of theory and set of professional practices. Part Six focuses on the theory and practice of urban planning today.
